California

Welcome to sunny California, the land where dreams can come true. One of my favorite states in the US and known around the entire world. Countless California adventures await you here....it just depends what you are looking for ;)

San Diego is one of California’s most entertaining cities. It can be exciting or relaxing, fun or mischievous, but always an enjoyable and delicious time. While many people come here for the weather and beaches, there is much more to San Diego than simple shoreline. Check out these offbeat San Diego sights and activities to Keep Reading…

Whether you have lived in Sonoma County your entire life or you are trying to plan a vacation to the area in the near future, you can be sure that there are tons of exciting sites you have not yet experienced. Sonoma County is one of those places that tends to have a lot going Keep Reading…

Explored Pier 39. ✔ Walked to Pier 45. ✔ Found a WWII Submarine. ✔ That’s right. I said A World War II Submarine. The USS Pampanito submarine served for three decades before being retired but is perhaps most famous for its starring role as the fictional USS Stingray in the 1995 comedy Keep Reading…

No visit to San Francisco would be complete without a tour of The Rock, the most famous former prison in the United States and one of the most famous historic prisons in the world. The island is a great day-trip however I highly recommend taking the Alcatraz night tour instead. Sadly, since I am not Keep Reading…

Like most of California’s cities, Anaheim can be a fun, cool, quirky and unique vacation destination — even more so if you know the right places. For example, did you know that, according to the folks at Guinness World Records, the nation’s skinniest house in the USA is located just a few minutes from downtown Keep Reading…

On the surface Carlsbad appears as little more than a typical family resort town, perfect for an ideal summer vacation or as a pit-stop on the next family road trip. After all, it’s the home of Legoland, California, one of the coolest amusement parks for kids in the world, and K1 Speed, a racetrack designed Keep Reading…

What is now the city of San Diego started out as Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo’s San Miguel, named when he sailed into San Diego Bay on September 28, 1542. The Portuguese explorer claimed the land for Spain, but Spain ignored the area for sixty years and all proof of Cabrillo’s claim had weathered away. Sebastián Vizcaíno Keep Reading…

All last month my fellow travel bloggers were sharing their top photos and recommended gift ideas for travelers. Never one to hop on an overcrowded bandwagon I decided to abstain from it all. Well that and most of my photographs are not that worthy of repeated sharing, although to be fair my photography skills have Keep Reading…

Worth over $2 billion annually, California‘s world-renowned wines used to be its number one cash crop, but now they’ve been surpassed — err..blown away — by the marijuana industry, which according to a 2011 report is worth $14 billion, a whopping seven times that of the vineyards! And it’s growing every year. Quick gift Keep Reading…

Have you ever left on what you thought would be a one-week vacation, only to not return home until six months later? Yeah, that is what happened to me during the summer of 2010. Turned into quite the epic hippie road trip too. (Now that I’ve decided to pursue travel blogging, might as well share Keep Reading…